Hourya Benis Sinaceur

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Hourya Benis Sinaceur

Hourya Sinaceur is a Moroccan philosopher. She is an expert in the theory and history of mathematics.

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Biography

Hourya Benis was born in 1940 in Casablanca in Morocco. [1] Sinaceur worked for Paris-Sorbonne University and the French National Centre for Scientific Research which is also in Paris, and the URS[ clarification needed ] in Rabat. She has also served as a member of the National French Committee of History and Philosophy of Science (Comité National Francais d'Histoire et de Philosophie des Sciences. [2]

Books

She is the author of the book Corps et Modèles (1991), translated into English as Field and Models: From Sturm to Tarski and Robinson (Birkhauser, 2003). [3] and of Functions and Generality of Logic: Reflections on Dedekind's and Frege's logicisms (Springer, 2015). [4]

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References

  1. "Hommage à Rabat à la philosophe marocaine Hourya Benis Sinaceur" in MAP, 16 Nov. 2007 retrieved 32-2-2009)
  2. Statuts / Composition / Actualités passées / Historique (PDF), Comité national français d’histoire et de philosophie des sciences, 2011, archived from the original on 2021-07-14, retrieved 2020-06-15
  3. Reviews of Field and Models: Javier Echeverría (1992), Theoria, JSTOR   23915307; Albert C. Lewis (1992), Isis, JSTOR   233959; Peter M. Neumann (1992), British Journal for the History of Science, JSTOR   4027271; Pascal Gribomont (1997), Revue Internationale de Philosophie, JSTOR   23954471
  4. Review of Functions and Generality of Logic: Risto Vilkko, MR 3363186